Depp has since revealed that he was inspired by a painting, saying that the make-up is meant to evoke Tonto's various emotions.

"I'd actually seen a painting by an artist named Kirby Sattler, and looked at the face of this warrior and thought, 'That's it'," Depp told Entertainment Weekly.

"The stripes down the face and across the eyes," he continued. "It seemed to me like you could almost see the separate sections of the individual, if you know what I mean.

"There's this very wise quarter, a very tortured and hurt section, and angry and rageful section, and a very understanding and unique side," Depp explained. "I saw these parts, almost like dissecting a brain, these slivers of the individual. That make-up inspired me."